Time passed quickly.A year later, I moved to another city.It was a coastal city in the south where the air was humid.It was far away from my hometown.I joined a new tech company and continued working as a programmer, but I was no longer the Mike who worked overtime until three in the morning.I signed up for a gym membership.Every day after work, instead of going home and collapsing onto the couch, I went to the gym and ran for an hour.There was something reassuring about the feeling of sweat soaking through my clothes.I picked up reading again. I read everything from technical books to literature.I even started learning to cook, but my cooking wasn't particularly good.When my coworkers invited me to go hiking, I went with them.When they invited me to go sailing on weekends, I went with them too.The man in the mirror was tanner and more muscular.My eyes no longer held the emptiness and exhaustion of my previous life.Tanya video-called me."Mike, you look gre
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